Tyler, TX: how dark is the sky here?

Satellite radiance puts Tyler in the suburban edge band. A noticeable glow near the horizon. Brighter stars and constellations are easy to pick out; the Milky Way is washed out. Only 26.7% of the 3,206 cities measured here read darker than Tyler.

This comes from a satellite measuring light radiating upward, not a person's eyes on the ground, so it isn't the same as a Bortle class, though the two track each other closely.

The nearest darker sky to Tyler

87 miles from Tyler, straight-line, sits Red Oak, TX, the nearest city here with a darker sky than Tyler's own suburban edge band.

Red Oak, TX is itself still a measured city, not a designated dark-sky park, this only compares against the 3,206 places this dataset covers.

How Tyler compares nationally

Tyler, TX has a population of about 112,219, one of 3,206 US cities of 10,000 or more residents in this dataset. Tyler places 852 of 3,206 cities in this dataset's darkest-to-brightest order.